If I use a recent LiveCD and boot via: gentoo root=/dev/sda1, it boots up with a few complaints. I've run silo -f (more than once) without any success. Previously, I ran a 2G SCA drive in the machine without problems, but this 9G drive must have a new wrinkle someplace.

a) Do I need a separate boot partition in the first 2G of drive space?

This was an install off the 2006.0 LiveCD, an emerge sync, then basic networking tools + my favorites added.

TIA_________________Being a Gentoo user means living in a house inhabited by a family of crazed carpenters. When you wake up, the house is different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved, or perhaps someone has removed the floor under your bed.

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usually boots on serial, but seems to kernel panic on the sun keyboard (maybe a typo, since I cannot cut and paste).

So it appears that the boot alias is broken in the prom, and that silo still needs help. How do I fix the OBP, or upgrade it?_________________Being a Gentoo user means living in a house inhabited by a family of crazed carpenters. When you wake up, the house is different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved, or perhaps someone has removed the floor under your bed.

Now it hasn't automatically boot yet, but now "boot disk0" does work. Once I track down the default bootdisk and change it from disk to disk0, everything should be fine._________________Being a Gentoo user means living in a house inhabited by a family of crazed carpenters. When you wake up, the house is different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved, or perhaps someone has removed the floor under your bed.